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Archive for August, 2006

Recent WebKit Features

Posted by Maciej Stachowiak on Saturday, August 12th, 2006 at 11:18 pm

There have been a lot of exciting new engine-level features that have been added to WebKit over the last few months, and not all of them have received their own blog entries. Since we featured some of these in Safari/WebKit WWDC presentations, now seems like a good time to mention some of the highlights of [...]

Mac OS Forge is launched

Posted by Maciej Stachowiak on Tuesday, August 8th, 2006 at 2:25 pm

Yesterday Apple announced Mac OS Forge, a new developer community site for selected Mac OS X open source projects. Currently hosted projects include the Darwin Calendar Server, Bonjour, Launchd, and the Darwin kernel, including full intel sources. Congratulations to the team behind Mac OS Forge, and welcome to our open source brethren.

WebKit Open Source Party at WWDC

Posted by Maciej Stachowiak on Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006 at 4:06 pm

In conjunction with the Apple World Wide Developers Conference, the Safari/WebKit team at Apple will be hosting a WebKit Open Source party. If you are a Mac OS X developer, a browser hacker, a web developer, or just someone with an interest in cool technology, then come hobnob with WebKit contributors from Apple and elsewhere.
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Unity Project: WebKit Ported to Qt 4

Posted by Maciej Stachowiak on Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006 at 3:54 pm

The KDE team recently anounced the Unity project, an effort to port WebKit to Qt 4. WebKit was originally derived from KHTML, the html rendering engine for KDE. Since then, the two engines have followed separate development paths. But with this effort, we have the opportunity to once again have a single source base that [...]